[Ads-l] More -xits

Thu Jun 30 19:56:59 UTC 2016

Sorry, autocorrect changed Hexit to He it.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 3:56 PM victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bill Curtis (I think) on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me mentioned Trexit, He it,
> and "and everyone's hoping" Sanders win would result in sexit.
>
> VS-)
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 3:43 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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>> from Boxit to Nexit to Spaxit...to Fuxit:
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>> http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/whats-up-with-the-u-k-a-handy-lexi=
>> con-of-exiting
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>> LH
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>> > On Jun 29, 2016, at 2:27 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
>> >=20
>> > A person talking on NPR this morning (don't know who it was; I just =
>> heard a a few seconds) was making "Brisket" jokes.
>> >=20
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>> > --Charlie
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>> > Oops, sorry.  I see I was scooped.  I will say that I independently =3D
>> > embedded the same joke in an e-mail to a British colleague on June 23. =
>>  =3D20=3D
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>> > LH
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>> >> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> =3D
>> > wrote:
>> >> =3D20
>> >> Brekekek=3DC3=3DA8xit-ko=3DC3=3DA0x-ko=3DC3=3DA1x?
>> >> =3D20
>> >> DanG
>> >> =3D20
>> >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter =3D
>> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> =3D20
>> >>> First time I heard "Brexit" I thought it was a frog noise.
>> >>> =3D20
>> >>> JL
>> >>> =3D20
>> >>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Laurence Horn =3D
>> > <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>> Or if you prefer, for the perBrexed:
>> >>> =3D
>> > =
>>
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>> >>>> =3D20
>> >>>>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
>> =3D=
>>
>> > wrote:
>> >>>>> =3D20
>> >>>>> I just saw a headline, "A Guide for the Brexplexed"
>> >>>>> =3D20
>> >>>>> DanG
>> >>>>> =3D20
>> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com>
>> =3D=
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>> > wrote:
>> >>>>> =3D20
>> >>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Laurence Horn  wrote:
>> >>>>>> =3D20
>> >>>>>>>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Michael Quinion wrote:
>> >>>>>>>> =3D20
>> >>>>>>>> On 28/06/2016 01:25, David Daniel wrote:
>> >>>>>>>>> Rumour has it that Brexit will be followed by Grexit, =3D
>> > Departugal,
>> >>>>>>> Italeave,
>> >>>>>>>>> Fruckoff, Czechout, Oustria, Finish, Slovlong, Latervia, =3D
>> > Byegium but
>> >>>>>>>>> Remainia will stay. (=3D46rom a friend's Facebook post)
>> >>>>>>>>> DAD
>> >>>>>>>> =3D20
>> >>>>>>>> Such collateral creativity knows no bounds. Yesterday morning I =
>> =3D
>> > came
>> >>>>>>> across Jexit, referring to the possible (or probable) =
>> resignation =3D
>> > of
>> >>>>>> Jeremy
>> >>>>>>> Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party in Britain. I see now that =
>> the
>> >>> Daily
>> >>>>>>> Mail recorded it on 26 June:
>> >>> =3D
>> > =
>>
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>> >>>>>>> An alternative on this side of the pond (where "been" is a =3D
>> > homophone
>> >>> of
>> >>>>>>> "bin") would be "Cor-BYN" (or alternately "Cor-been"), as in
>> >>> "has-been"
>> >>>>>> or
>> >>>>>>> "has-bian" (cf.
>> >>> =3D
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>> >>> ).  But the pun
>> >>>>>>> wouldn't work for his (former?) Labour acolytes, for whom he'd
>> =3D=
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>> > have
>> >>> to be
>> >>>>>>> "Cor-BEAN".
>> >>>>>> =3D20
>> >>>>>> =3D20
>> >>>>>> "Corbout" has been a popular joke on Twitter (likewise, =3D
>> > "Cameroff").
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>> >>>>>> --bgz
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